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Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain the latest source directly from the main repository at github. More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo [rakudo.org].

This release announcement reads to me as...

"We've released the new version of Rakudo. Don't use it. If you're sophisticated enough to have and use git, pull from version control, set up

I forgot that one; thank you. It's more important than my omission makes it sound! If making a release is so easy and boring that any of a dozen people can do it with an afternoon's notice, any of a dozen people can make a release to fix a critical bug. We all hope that's not necessary, but we can spend our time focusing on the important part of that process.

* We'd like to avoid getting bug reports and questions about things that were fixed 1-4 weeks prior.

* Application developers often like to target releases instead of trunk for their distributions.

* Many people still believe the myth that Perl 6 is vaporware and will never exist/be finished/be released/etc. The best response to that myth that I can offer is a steady stream of regular releases showing measurable progress towards the goal.